Spot a galaxy or three tonight

Feb. 22, 2013

Written by

Pam Eastlick
For Pacific Daily News

Greetings everyone! We have three planets in our early evening sky, but Mercury and Mars won't be around much longer.

To see them, go outside at 7 p.m. and face where the sun disappeared. Mercury will be a fist-width above the western horizon. Mars will be below Mercury, but you may not be able to see it. Give it a try tonight!

Jupiter is almost straight overhead in the western sky and appears to be the sky's brightest star. Face west at 7:30 p.m. and measure a fist-width down from Jupiter. Look to the right a little and you'll see a small cluster of stars. That's the Pleiades, and that little star group ...